I love it! I have no problem with apparent inconsistencies between science and religion-- both exist--but science does seem to provide reality with apparent structure, and pry-points, so to speak, for evaluating and expanding our concepts. Which by the nature of our species, will be explored. However, reality may be a lot "finer grained" than we know, and we tailless primates may (let's hope not, but may) lack the equipment to figure it out.
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In ‘Dark Energy,’ Cosmic Humility
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It is a mark of how distasteful scientists find that prospect—which would mean that their "why?" brings the answer "just because"—that they are considering a "Twilight Zone" alternative. Maybe the reason the universe is accelerating—the observation that led astronomers to infer the existence of dark energy 10 years ago—is not that something is pushing it apart. Maybe gravity is leaking out. That would remove the brakes on the cosmic expansion, letting it accelerate just as those 1997 supernova studies showed. If gravity leaked anywhere within the universe it would still make itself felt, so that leaves undetected hidden dimensions, a whole other space-time we never suspected and might never detect. Humbling indeed.
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